>> RE: Ah, differences without any distinction.
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> The willingness to cut taxes IS a distinction.
I view it as rationalization, and a willingness to buy into moral relativism.
>> RE: Is a refusal to vote for a Statist (or Socialist) a flat-out rejection of anyone who’s not perfect?
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>Again, there are DEGREES of desire for statism. I argue that Romney is less ( MUCH LESS ) of a statist than Obama and would have been better (relatively) than what we have now.
And I’m saying “bollocks!” — Let’s change things around a bit and look at a single issue: abortion. Obama is _very_ pro abortion, Romney is absolutely willing to make exceptions for incest, rape (killing the innocent), and “the health of the mother” (code-words for “at will” & status quo). — Voting for Obama or Romney therefore does nothing to end the American Holocaust.
>> We were not given palatable choices in 2012, however, to simply let Obama romp when there was a lesser evil alternative was the wrong thing to do.
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> THAT is the distinction.
No it is not. We were given the opportunity to choose between evil and good-compromised-with-evil (which *ALWAYS* works to evil’s favor).
What I’ve taken from people with your stance is that “the lesser of two evils” is *always* acceptable and there is no room for the absolute stance of someone saying “I will not vote for [socialists/statists/abortionists/something-I-find-utterly-repugnant/whatever].”
Is that what it means to be a Republican? That it’s ‘ok’ to give up a mile so long as you don’t give up a mile and an inch?
Is there any point where you would say “the line must be drawn here!”?
RE: I view it as rationalization, and a willingness to buy into moral relativism.
Willingness to cut taxes and unwillingness IS a difference. It isn’t moral relativism.
RE: Obama is _very_ pro abortion, Romney is absolutely willing to make exceptions for incest, rape (killing the innocent), and “the health of the mother” (code-words for “at will” & status quo). — Voting for Obama or Romney therefore does nothing to end the American Holocaust.
I’m with you regarding abortion. I am not even willing to kill the baby even when the mother is raped. I’d rather we help the child get adopted.
But yet, what is LESS WORSE? To save some babies or not to save any baby at all?
Rape and Incest are small numbers compared to the vast number of abortions out there.
So, your choice — Leave all babies to be killed or some babies to be killed. Given this hard choice, I select the later reluctantly.
RE: No it is not. We were given the opportunity to choose between evil and good-compromised-with-evil (which *ALWAYS* works to evil’s favor).
Oh yes it is. Cutting corporate taxes to 25% and eliminating the death tax is NOT compromise.
It is a HUGE STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.
Better than leaving it at 35% ( the highest in the world ) and leaving the death tax existent.
RE: Is that what it means to be a Republican? That it’s ‘ok’ to give up a mile so long as you don’t give up a mile and an inch?
Again, you are not given the best choice. You are given the choice between two evils. In which case, i have no choice but to select the lesser one.
It has nothing to do with being Republican, it is simply a way of stopping, reversing or slowing down the greater evil.